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Published in 1916, Ramiro de Maeztu’s short book Inglaterra en armas is, of
its author’s works, the one that has received the least critical attention.1 It
has only been dealt with by scholars very briefly (if at all), and there has been
no attempt to introduce it within the grander narrative of Maeztu’s
intellectual evolution. It is my aim in this paper to shed some light on this
work, outlining both its principal features and the interpretative difficulties
it poses for Maeztu scholars. I will also attempt to resolve these difficulties by
inserting the text within a genre that has received scant critical attention:
the crónicas del frente written by Spanish authors during the First World
War. I will argue that the more striking features of Inglaterra en armas recur
in similar texts written by Maeztu’s contemporaries, and that this can be
explained by the rigidity of the pro-Allied propaganda discourse in which he
and his peers were engaging...